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NARAL Focuses on Flipping House Seats Lost in 2010

By Samantha Kimmey ● Politics ● June 6, 2012

NARAL Pro-Choice America’s 41 endorsements so far this year include five candidates who lost in 2010 by slim margins. The group hopes that the pile-up of anti-choice votes in 2011 could help change the outcome for these renewed bids.

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Martha Burk to IBM at Augusta: Women Saw That

By Martha Burk ● Arts & Culture ● April 6, 2012

No, Virginia Rometty, the new female CEO of IBM, was not offered the “green jacket” of admission to Augusta National Golf Club. And Big Blue did nothing. Women are still shut off this power turf and can be shunned even if they’re CEOs.

Gadhafi Said to Order Forces to Rape Villagers

By Womens Enews Staff ● Employment ● June 19, 2011

Victim testimonies and recovered material from Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists point to the widespread use of rape as weapon of war in Libya. Hundreds of women have given testimony; some of which has reached the International Criminal Court.

Tiger Re-Masters Sexist Sponsorships at Augusta

By Lynn Hecht Schafran ● Arts & Culture ● April 5, 2010

Never mind that Tiger Woods is back at the Augusta National Golf Club, which excludes women. Lynn Hecht Schafran says the more troubling spectacle is sponsors’ re-embrace of tax-deductible discrimination.

Why Dowd Doesn’t Know What Men Really Want

By Rosalind C. Barnett & Caryl Rivers ● Arts & Culture ● November 2, 2005

Today’s commentators say it’s a shame that Maureen Dowd should depend on such flaky research and flimsy evidence when writing about feminism. Dowd’s article, based on weak research, was the most e-mailed story from The New York Times yesterday.

Party of Hate

By Womens Enews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● November 10, 2004

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Network Bankrolls Search for Funds in Grassroots

By Luchina Fisher ● Arts & Culture ● June 3, 2004

The Women’s Funding Network is spending $1 million over the next four years to help put more women–particularly women of color, younger women, lesbians and rural women–inside the donors’ circle.

Corporations Lower Their Profile at Augusta

By Friedlin & Shugart ● Arts & Culture ● April 13, 2004

Martha Burk may not have reversed the Augusta National Golf Club’s policies, which deny women membership. But her campaign against the club was felt at this year’s golf tournament, where corporate attendees kept their spending out of sight.

Afghan Constitution a Partial Victory for Women

By Masuda Sultan ● Uncategorized ● January 14, 2004

Afghanistan’s new constitution deserves acclaim for granting women equal rights. But the document also provides an opening for conservatives to implement religious law in ways that continue Taliban-like discrimination against women.

New NYSE Chief to Keep Augusta Membership

By WeNews Staff & no-author ● Arts & Culture ● October 11, 2003

(WOMENSENEWS)–John Reed, the new chief of the New York Stock Exchange, recently indicated that he would not use his position to urge the Augusta National Golf Club to admit women.

Reed, once retired but now interim chief executive officer of the New York Stock Exchange, rejected a recent plea from the National Council of Women’s Organizations to cancel his membership at the club. The council has been in a battle for more than a year over whether the famous club–home to one of golf’s most prestigious tournaments–would continue its refusal to admit women as members.